Chilling drawings from sadistic serial killers in prison

Eric Holler owns Serial Killer Ink, a website that sells items once owned or created by some of the most depraved humans to have existed. Convicted killer Robert Bardo drew this picture of ‘Chucky’.Source:Supplied

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A TRUE crime collector who has commissioned paintings, sketches and personal items from serial killers in prison has shared images of some of their most chilling artwork.

Mr Holler pays inmates a portion of the profits from the sale of their works to “help them out”.

“I’m not shy to say I help these guys,” he said.

“They don’t have any money, and if they can help me make money, then it’s only right to give some back.”

Mr Voller has been slammed by family members of the killers’ victims for profiting from their murders.

But the pieces and stories behind them are all just a part of modern history, according to him.

The creepy depictions of murder scenes, horror movie villains and violence obtained by news.com.au provide a disturbing insight into the minds of some of the world’s most sadistic killers.

Convicted killers Robert Ramirez (top left), John Wayne Gacy (top right), Andre Crawford (bottom left) and Hadden Clark (bottom right) each created artworks in prison that were later sold by Serial Killer Ink. Picture:AP Photo/Betty Jenewin.Source:Supplied

ANDRE CRAWFORD

Convicted serial killer and rapist, necrophiliac

Andre Crawford was an American convicted serial killer who killed 11 women between 1993 to 1999. He would smoke crack after killing them and later had sex with their corpses. In October 2016, he drew a picture from prison of a terrified woman with blood pouring from her face. He titled the image, ‘First Kill’.

“One can only assume that the drawing was his recollection of his first victim shortly before he killed her. This piece was on our website for all but 15 minutes before it sold. We knew it would sell fast as this is a prime example of the type pieces that are in demand.

Hadden Clark, 65, is currently serving two 30-year sentences for the 1992 murder of 23-year-old Laura Houghteling and the 1986 slaying of six-year-old Michele Dorr in the US.

Clark reportedly spoke like a woman and an infant when he was questioned by police over the killings.

Detectives said Clark’s female personality said he had buried “them” in New Jersey, without saying whom or where.

The killer reportedly told a cellmate that he murdered at least a dozen people and that his female alter ego was responsible for those deaths.

In an undated handwritten note on a drawing Clark prepared for Mr Holler, he referred to himself as ‘Kristen’.

“Dear Eric, Here is a picture of me when I was a little girl. When I was little I love (sic) to go to Sunday school so much that people started calling me Kristen because I was a Christian and I love Jesus. Love Kristen,” Clark wrote.

Mr Holler said the “Hadden Clark Kristen drawing was another piece that sold very quickly”.

But he wasn’t sure if the killer had really depicted his alter ego in the drawing.

“The drawing also looks just like the infamous photograph of his (child) victim Michelle Dorr,” Mr Holler said.

“We can’t help but to notice the eerie similarity in the way he drew ‘Kristen’ to that of his victim Michelle Dorr.”

Convicted killer Hadden Clark calls himself ‘Kristen’ reportedly because his mother wanted a daughter and referred to him as that growing up. He coloured this picture in prison and sent it to a collector, saying the girl in the picture was Kristen.Source:Supplied

Murder victim Michelle Dorr was just six years old when she was killed.Source:Supplied

Clark’s penchant for female clothing was said to have started when his mother clothed him in dresses and ruffles as a baby because she wanted a daughter.

“If you follow the story of Hadden Clark you know that his mother, when he was a child, would dress him as a little girl and call him Kristen,” Mr Holler said.

ROBERT BARDO

Convicted killer

Robert Bardo, at his sentencing of like in prison without parole for the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer in 1996.Source:News Corp Australia

At 21-years-old, actor-model Rebecca Schaeffer was shot dead at the door of her Los Angeles apartment by obsessed fan Robert Bardo on July 19, 1989.

The American killer, who had written Ms Schaeffer letters and tried to meet her at a studio where she worked, tracked the My Sister Sam actor down after paying a private investigator to obtain her home address from state motor vehicle records.

In prison, he drew a picture of horror movie villain ‘Chucky’ holding a knife in each hand. It was later sold via Serial Killer Ink.

Bardo remains in prison, serving a life sentence without possibility of parole.

A drawing of horror movie villain ‘Chucky’ by convicted killer Robert Bardo.Source:Supplied

A “skull clown” painting from by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.Source:Supplied

He was the friendly neighbour who dressed as ‘Pogo the Clown’ at parties and visited sick kids in hospitals. But behind the facade of his clown mask, John Wayne Gacy hid a shocking secret. Buried under the floor of his suburban Chicago home were the bodies of 28 boys and young men. Another body was entombed in his driveway, while four more were dumped in a nearby river.

Gacy murdered at least 33 people before he was imprisoned in the 1970s. While behind bars he painted several pictures including one of ‘Pogo the clown’ and another of a skull wearing a clown’s hat.

Gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994.

Some of the known victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.Source:Getty Images

JOSEPH DRUCE

Convicted killer

Joseph Druce is serving two life sentences for the separate murders of a gay bus driver and a paedophile priest.

Druce was given a life sentence without parole for killing convicted paedophile priest John Geoghan in 2003 while the two were in a correction facility.

He was already serving a life sentence for beating and killing a gay bus driver in 1988.

One of the pictures he has drawn shows a decapitated man lying bloodied on the floor of a prison cell as a man stands by holding his head is accompanied by the tagline: ‘Stop the EVIL! Leave the children alone now’ .

“The Druce ‘Stop the Evil’ drawing is a classic,” Mr Holler said.

“It’s no secret that many view and hold Druce as a modern day hero and he quite seems to revel in it.

“We love the tagline ‘Leave the Children Alone’ and rightfully so.”

A drawing from prison by convicted killer Joseph Druce.Source:Supplied

RODERICK FERRELL

Convicted killer

Four teenagers whom police alleged had slit their wrists and drank each other’s blood were accused of bludgeoning to death a Florida couple in 1996.

Roderick Ferrell — the 16 year old ex boyfriend of the victims’ daughter, Heather — was charged with murder while three others were charged with assisting the murder.

A police spokesperson said it “appeared they got caught up in a fantasy vampire game that mushroomed into a role-playing cult”.

In 2013, Ferrell sketched a picture of the horror movie character Jason from ‘Friday the 13th’ before it fell into the hands of Mr Holler and was sold on his site.

The ‘Night Stalker’ Richard Ramirez displays a pentagram symbol on his hand inside a Los Angeles courtroom in 1985. He was convicted of 13 murders but is believed to have committed many more. Picture: AP /Lennox McLendon.Source:AP

Richard Ramirez was a devil worshipper also known as the satanic ‘Night Stalker’.

Ramirez was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to death for 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries.

Mr Holler later obtained a drawing by the killer that depicted a pair of wicked eyes above a bloodied knife.

Convicted killer and rapist Richard Ramirez made this picture in prison. He named it ‘the night stalker’.Source:Supplied

A drawing from prison by convicted killer Richard Ramirez.Source:Supplied

Ramirez’s monstrous rampage from Los Angeles to San Francisco paralysed the state in the mid 1980s. Among his victims was Jennie Vincow. Ramirez climbed through Ms Vincow’s home window and slit her throat, nearly decapitating her. He then sexually assaulted her corpse.

Ramirez died of cancer in 2013 before he could be executed.

EUGENE McWATTERS, The Salerno Strangler

Convicted serial killer

Eugene McWatters was convicted of the 2004 slayings of three women, Jackie Bradley, Christal Wiggins and Carrie Ann Caughey, in Port Salerno, Florida. The women, whose ages ranged from 18 to 43, were found raped and strangled within 10 weeks of one another.

His drawing of skeletons in black capes hovering above a cemetery was commissioned by Mr Holler who sold the artwork via Serial Killer Ink.

A drawing from prison by convicted serial killer Eugene McWatters, also known as ‘The Salerno Strangler’.Source:Supplied

A sketch from prison by convicted killer Chane van Heerden.Source:Supplied

Van Heerden and her accomplice Maartens van der Merwe killed, dismembered their victim. After the killing, Van Heerden used skinning techniques she had learnt while hunting with her stepfather as a young girl. The couple then buried various parts of the remains in a local cemetery as well as in their backyard garden. According to the Independent Online, victim Van Eck was decapitated, his right arm cut off, and both his legs amputated at the knees. Mr Eck’s eyes and ears were found in the couple’s fridge.